Sunday, June 21, 2026

Ask (not) what you can do for your planet

One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood!

Ocean temperatures 800 times more likely due to climate crisis fuel Hurricane Milton’s explosive...

According to Climate Central, a research organization specializing in climate impacts, the record-breaking sea temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel that allowed Hurricane Milton to intensify at an unprecedented pace.

Supreme Court refuses to hear Biden’s emergency abortion rule appeal, allowing Texas ban to...

This decision came on the first day of the Court’s new term and has significant implications for the legal landscape of reproductive rights across the country.

Prestige, power, and dear old alma mater

Must higher education always genuflect before America’s highest incomes?

Global river flows fell to record lows in 2023, WMO report says

For the past five years in a row, river flows all over the globe have recorded below-normal conditions, the press release said.

Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon kill dozens amid intensified ground offensive

Israeli forces launched their most intense bombing campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, targeting key areas and prompting international calls for ceasefire.

How many of Trump’s nine cat lives remain? Could fear of losing explain his...

The problem is that the unfeeling Trumpian brew of chaos, cynicism, and suspicion sabotage what open, healthy democratic systems depend on.

Blowout erupts in west Texas’s Permian Basin, creating 100-Foot tower of oily water

A 1961 oil and gas well is the suspected source of a geyser eruption in the region where Permian wastewater disposal is causing a flurry of earthquakes.

Walz calls out Trump’s economic failures in Fox News interview, emphasizes Harris’ middle-class agenda

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz defends the Democratic economic plan on Fox News, drawing sharp contrasts with Donald Trump’s tax policies and calling out corporate price gouging.

UAW denounces Trump-Vance ticket as “menace to working class” amid threats to EV jobs...

The UAW warns that the Trump-Vance ticket threatens Michigan’s economic future by jeopardizing a $500 million federal grant for an electric vehicle plant, while highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s investment in American manufacturing and union jobs.